Archive for the ‘Spring Security’ Category
We always want to know who is on our website, how many users are logged in and how many visitors are present. Not only is the information useful, it also looks good. 
I tried looking for pluggable solutions to track users but couldn’t find any. Having implemented spring security in a few web apps, I decided to see if there was an easy way to do this.
Question like this one popup on the spring security forum all the time. The question is almost always the same. The system must perform some custom action after a user logs in or out of the system. And almost always this action has to be performed on the session like setting an attribute or removing [...]
I wish spring security would work on their documentation and tell people how easy it is to implement a custom service for loading user details. You don’t HAVE to use JDBC to do that, you can write your very own hibernate, toplink or whatever DAO to do just that. It’s important to realise that spring-security [...]
So I managed to configure spring security in my last article here but what do I do now. How do I create the login form, login.jsp for my users to authenticate from. I searched around and found a few articles but none that listed out the login page. Then I looked in the spring-security distribution
I have written another post listing how to construct your login and logout pages to work with spring-security. It’s important that you read this post first if you’re new to spring-security. Security in web applications is a big concern. More often than not developers miss securing a few pages here and there. These pages aren’t [...]